Report the offending players for economic exploitation and move on. Leave the rest of us alone.
Better yet, learn to play the auction house instead of trying to farm to get rich.
Or come down on Blizzard for their multitap node system, overaggressive crzing, and poor implimentation of Zin’anthid.
Yeah, we should totally go back to 1 node 1 tap, and mob tags that can’t be shared. That’ll fix things.
Edit: /s in case it’s needed.
I was hoping to see a multiboxer post in here with all their toons and upvote each other. Disappointed.
They are on the right side of this. They make the rules. Your best bet is to vote with your wallet if you disagree.
They’re on the right side of things because there are plenty of boxers who literally just stay in their own lanes instead of farming.
Instead waste your energy on something other than scapegoating.
Too much effort.
for what? they are operating inside of the ToS this thread is about changing the ToS
sure, but this is not a realistic expectation for the entire community to develop.
or instead of altering a bunch of systems so multiboxxers wont exploit it, maybe just reign that in.
Economic Exploitation.
Actually it’s about multiboxing positivity. Your quibbling is off topic.
It’s not my fault if someone doesn’t actually learn to make gold the right way and doesn’t get a long boi.
I’m not the one farming. Farming is a waste of effort.
Is it better to punish people like me who don’t farm and just stay in our own lanes for crimes we didn’t commit or should Blizzard make nodes be personal for people?
First of all, Blizzard is perfectly willing to ban people for actually breaking the rules.
Second of all, Activision-Blizzard earns billions of dollars a year. They absolutely could ban multiboxing tomorrow and nobody higher would even notice.
Saying “it’s about the money” is a lame conspiracy theory from people who can’t handle the truth. And that truth is that Blizzard allows multiboxing because they see it as an interesting alternative way to play the game.
what is economic exploitation? that could be a very loose definition, and seems extremely hard to implement a rule on this.
oh the OP certainly is about how good multiboxxers are and how healthy they are for the game, but lets be honest, the thread is not about that, and it had no chance of being that.
actually an interesting question, is there precedent for disallowing an activity in wow because a minority of account holders abused it? off the top of my head im not sure.
if nodes could be personalized that would be a solution at least as far as herbs and mining goes. im imagining each character gets a pre determined node layout for each zone every day or something to that effect.
Economic Exploitation is doing things that adversely affect the server economy. Typically stuff like duping. You could argue that people using multiple accounts to herb are committing economic exploitation. It’s up to Blizzard to decide.
Typically when people engage in exploitative clever use of game mechanics, Blizzard fixes what they were exploiting instead of mass banning people.
Other games do that if I recall. I know Blizzard has the ability to make things appear personally.
Multiboxing is “legal”, but it depends on WHAT you use it for that can make it undesired.
If you try and join a dungeon group where you’re boxing one toon and playing another … no way, without actual botting, can you accurately have both toons function at full capacity.
I’ve votekicked people for that. You want to box and run dungeons … get someone much higher level to drag you through it, use guildies who know, or PAY people to deal with the carry. Because that’s what it’d be, a Carry.
Same thing would be true of raiding. Trying to multibox in a raid is just not kosher.
Your “right” to multibox ends where it interferes with group content.
What you do in the world, your business, so long as its legal by Blizzard rules. What you do in Instanced content is EVERYONES business, so boxing is going to get negative reactions.
If you use it to grief or otherwise disrupt normal activity, it doesn’t matter if you’re playing one toon or boxing 20 … its griefing. And in such a case, every single account should receive the same penalty since they’re all owned by you.
I used to dualbox in raids back in Wrath. I rocked two holy paladins and tank healed in 25 man. I put a beacon on each tank and had one paladin assist the other and heal their targets. It worked fine.
Its technically allowed, so no amount of whining will matter, until blizzard have a policy change.
yea its so broad of a definition though. playing the AH could also be considered economic exploitation, there was a pretty notable issue in GW2 where someone got banned for doing it. these things are all up to the developers discretion. I believe in EVE online for example they allow multiboxing but it cant be automated via a third party program like you are able to do in wow.
I should be clear, I am not advocating for people to be banned. My ideal scenario would be for the policy to change when SL launches and not just a random tuesday.
if they did it after, then yea ban away.
Either way I would be punished for crimes I didn’t commit and I’d no longer be able to enjoy the game the way I have since BC just because a bunch of whiners chose my playstyle as a scapegoat.
I mean, it’s not against the rules, however whenever I see a multiboxer I know they are just worse at the game than others. If it takes you 3+ accounts to feel powerful in this game then you have my pity!
Not automatically true. It depends on WHY they’re boxing. I have friends who box … and they are competent at playing the toons individually. They’re just doing it, with people who KNOW they’re boxing, as a matter of saving time.
So its not about skill, its about getting ‘chore’ work done in an efficient manner.
I have ADHD and need a greater number of things to track to keep my attention. I find managing several characters to be an extra layer of complexity and challenge than playing one when it comes to content like leveling.
Multi-boxing is literally the definition of pay to win. I can’t wait for Blizzard to start banning people who do it.
They have had the opportunity to ban multiboxing for 15 years. Somehow I’m still here.
It’s getting a lot more hate now because people are realizing what it has become, I think it’ll be gone within 5 years.